Let us assume that on average each person uses:
1 handkerchief per day
1 paper towel per meal (we will say one per day, because at noon there is not always a choice)
That's good for us: 365 handkerchiefs per year and 365 paper towels needed manufacture, pack in small packages that we pack in multipacks that we pack in big boxes that we put in in a big truck to bring them first to a distributor, then we put it back in another truck who will bring them to your favorite hyper where you will go to buy one from time to time, you take it home, use it, throw it in a garbage bag (which must be manufactured, etc.) which will be disposed of by a big truck and will end up in an incineration plant if we're lucky, at the landfill if we have less. Phew! Repeat this circus as many times as necessary.
Ah! Grandmother, her lace handkerchiefs and her linen towel! What happiness! At my house, a towel lasts 5 to 7 days (except on whole shrimp days), a handkerchief one day. This makes, by accumulating, fifty towels per year, or one wash cycle (and again I'm not sure that it would fill the machine if we washed them all at the same time), and 365 tissues, or two or three cycles.
I would put my hand to cut that four detergents (including iron) per year that pollutes and consumes less than all the hassle that handkerchiefs and paper towels cause.
And I thank you for the same reasoning for the question of rags against Sopaline.
What do you have to do other than ironing towels to save the planet?
but it's a little discreet (big pocket) especially when 3 or 4 accumulate 
Those who have already done it will understand 
the wipes
